ICE took place earlier this week and I had the opportunity to visit for the fourth year in a row. This year I could unfortunately only be in London for a single day, the thursday. It was a good visit with a short presentation about the future sportsbook interface as well as a few really promising [...]
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It is 2012! More and more igaming companies are thinking about player experience, so I was extremely disappointed when I visited Virgin Poker earlier today. On their poker start page they seem to have a lot of focus on getting the visitor to download their poker software. As you can see in image 1 and 2. [...]
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More and more players have smartphones and we need to design for that when we design igaming products. The days when players just sat home by their PC playing are over and now they want to be able to play when ever and where ever they are. Users (players) have a mobile phone with them [...]
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It was very interesting to read the news from Microgaming yesterday. Microgaming will form a Network Management Board that will be in charge of the development and operational running of the Microgaming Poker Network. The board will consist of representatives from operators, Microgaming’s Networks Game Team and a chairman from within the industry. My advice [...]
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Chiligaming today announced that they in the beginning of October will release “The World’s First Multi-Device Free-Play Social Gaming Poker Network“, chiliplay.com This is an interesting move for a online gambling poker company and they will probably focus on the US market (Chiligaming is about to open an office in San Francisco). I’m not sure [...]
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I have some time to look around and play on different gaming sites during my vacation and today when I went to the poker section at sportingbet.com I noticed on their poker support page that they have a FAQ page for recent upgrades. The only problem is that the information on the page is over [...]
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Hi everyone! I’m happy with all you visiting and reading my blog, but it would be even more fun if you guys would make comments on my posts. One of my goals with the blog is to get the discussion started when it comes to user experience and igaming. So please make more comments! Even [...]
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This week ChiliPoker introduced a new social networking tool called Chiliconnect which let their players share results, connect with other players, challenge players among other features. A lot of people in the business say that this is the most innovative thing within the online poker industry since Rush Poker from Full Tilt. I would call [...]
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CEO Pontus Lindwall at Betsson today delivered the Year-End Report 2010 and the result was really strong. Casino and sportsbook are their strong products at the moment. Especially the live betting have increased almost 400%. It was really interesting to listen to the presentation and two things really got me thinking. Poker is not performing [...]
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eGaming Review writes today that the Ongame Network is likely to be sold as a result of the upcoming merger between PartyGaming and Bwin. It would be really interesting to find out why they choose one platform over the other. Is it because it is better when it comes to the technical part? Is [...]
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It is the final day of the ICE totally gaming show and I’m going there for a few hours before heading out to Heathrow and my flight home. My main reflections from being at ICE yesterday is that more gaming providers are turning into “full gaming providers”, meaning that they provide many different kinds [...]
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It is almost time to go to ICE for the second day. I spend a couple of hours at the show yesterday walking looking at all the different exhibitors, especially in the igaming section. And it is pretty similar to previous years. We have everything from Microgaming’s big brands to bwin’s new iPhone poker app. [...]
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I’ve had fun playing around with bwin’s real money poker iPhone App for a few days now. Overall it has been a good experience but there are a few things, I’m listing four that I believe needs to be improved in order to be a real killer app. 1. Give the player the option to [...]
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Today bwin released a real money poker app for the iPhone (currently only available in Great Britain and Austria). Read the press release I’ve just played around with it for about half an hour during my lunch break and my first impressions are mainly positive. I believe that this is great addition to the [...]
Read morePokerStars recently launched a new section on pokerstars.net, their play money site, (I am sure it will be available on the real money site soon as well. UPDATE: It is now avaliable on pokerstars.com as well) which allows players create their home games to play with friends. It is a great move by PokerStars and I [...]
Read moreICE totally gaming starts in about two weeks. I’m booking flights and hotel as we speak. It will be fun to attend the biggest igaming show of the year. Are you going to? Me and a colleague will attend this year. I’m actually booking my flight and hotel as we speak. It will be very interesting [...]
Read moreThe ICE Total Gaming show is coming up this month, January 25-27th, and everyone in the iGaming industry will be there. Last year was a bit dissapointing but I’m really looking forward to this year’s show. Will we see anything new this year? I am especially interested in the following areas: Innovation, Customization, Mobile platforms [...]
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This week’s redesign is about ParadisePoker’s lobby. ParadisePoker is Sportingbet‘s poker brand and their client is built by Boss Media (my former employer). I play on it every now and then and I really enjoy the clean and nice tables, it helps me to focus on my game. But I find the poker lobby to [...]
Read morePokerStars (as well as many other poker operators) announce information about upcoming tournaments in the table window. The information is shown for a couple of seconds. You see the information in the middle of the window. How would you go about to get more information and register? I would click in the information box. But [...]
Read moreApple released Game Center in their latest version of iOS (4) and it is available on the iPhone and iPod Touch. It will be available on the iPad with the release of iOS 4.2 coming next month. With Game Center players can play games against other players, either friends or players they don’t know. The [...]
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